State ex rel. Akron Coal Co. v. Bd. of Directors of Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District

In State ex rel. Akron Coal Co. v. Bd. of Directors of Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Dist., et al. (1940), 136 Ohio St. 485, 26 N.E.2d 766, Akron Coal Co. sought a writ of mandamus to require the Board of Directors of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District to compel the Board to initiate condemnation of land proceedings as was ordered by the Conservancy Court. The Supreme Court's syllabus in Akron states, "Where a prior action is pending between the same litigants, involving the same subject-matter, in a court having jurisdiction, a mandamus proceeding in another court is barred, unless it is plain that adequate relief is not obtainable in the prior case." Akron at 485.